Sample from the Colorado Code of Ethics for Healthcare
Principle:
Advancing the exchange of information, education, and shared decision making
Value statement:
A variety of information is required in order to deliver and receive health care responsibility. Patient information is necessary to manage and improve quality of care, to develop practice parameters, to aggregate data for public health monitoring, and, most critically, to assist patients and their families in making important healthcare choices.
Health plans, providers, physicians and other practitioners, purchasers, and employers are obligated to provide information to consumers, patients, and surrogate decision makers to foster knowledgeable and responsible use of health care resources. Patients, consumers, and surrogate decision makers will seek, understand, and be guided by information.
Standards:
A. All participants share the responsibility for information exchange and education.
B. Health plans, providers, physicians, and practitioners communicate openly and honestly and share decision-making responsibilities with patients and surrogate decision makers.
C. Patients, consumers, and surrogate decision makers participate as informed decision makers by obtaining relevant information from health plans, providers, physicians, practitioners, and other health care resources.
D. Employers offering health insurance benefits provide accurate, complete and usable information to employees about health plan selection, benefits, inclusions and exclusions, and utilization management procedures.
E. Health plans provide information about benefit inclusions and exclusions, accessing and navigating the system, and outcomes in language that can be understood easily by consumers and patients.
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